John Kincaid

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Husband John Kincaid ¹

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1 M John Kincaid ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John Kincaid

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He was the original Kincaid settler of the family in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and there is no record found of any of the name in Pennsylvania at an earlier period.

Kincaid is one of the oldest surnames in Scotland, and is from the Gaelic words "ceann" (head) and "chend" (hundred), head or chieftain of a hundred men. The spelling of this name varies greatly in the different branches and often in the same family. In the early records of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, it is found as Kincaid, Kincade, Kinkead and Kinkaid. The family is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and in Pennsylvania first settled in Middleton township, where John Kinkead is named in a list of settlers under date of 1751. In 1768 John Kincaid, George Kinkaid and James Kinkaid are named as residents of the same township. In 1797 John Kincade was still living there. These were all members of the same family, the spelling, no doubt, being determined by the ability of the clerk making the entry. Many Kincaids served in the Revolutionary War, principally from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The John Kincaid mentioned in the list of 1751 was the father of John, who later settled in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Whether he or his son, John, was the Revolutionary War soldier is hard to determine; both were of age, capable of service, and two Johns are named in Pennsylvania archives as serving with Cumberland County militia-one as John Kincaid, the other as John Kincade, therefore, both may have served. In the list of slave holders filed at Carlisle in 1768, John Kinkead is given as the owner of one slave.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 895.